Lone Star Book Blog Tour: Covey and JayJay Get Educated by Shelton L. Williams (Review)

COVEY AND JAYJAY
GET EDUCATED
by
Shelton L. Williams
Genre: Murder Mystery / Social Thriller / Amateur Sleuth
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Number of Pages: 209 pages

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Amateur detectives, Covey Jencks and JayJay Qualls, are drawn into a triple murder on the campus of Baker College in West Waverly in the Texas Hill Country. Both end up taking positions at the college: Covey as an adjunct instructor and JayJay as a visiting actor. 


Initially they believe that money is the motive for the murders, but over time they learn that the college is a cauldron of political and social intrigue. The college’s new president and his beautiful wife, various staff members, a prominent trustee, and parties not associated with the college have the motives, opportunities, and wacky agendas that might implicate them in the murders. It turns out that a white nationalist group may be using a college house for its nefarious activities, but are they more talk than action? 
 
The West Waverly police are little to no help in the investigation, and Covey himself has to depart the college to deal with his father’s death. JayJay takes over and makes a critical breakthrough. Upon Covey’s return, the couple must rely on deception, a bit of luck, and martial arts skills to solve the crimes and to try to prevent a high-profile assassination.


Covey and JayJay Get Educated by Shelton L. Williams is the exciting sequel to Covey Jencks (2018). While this second book can be read as a standalone, the first book is so entertaining, you won’t want to miss out.

After cracking their first case and nearly getting killed in the process, Covey and JayJay are back in the crime-fighting game. The difference is that they are now a bit wiser and a little more organized in their sleuthing. Covey and JayJay hightail it out of Odessa and head to Baker College in West Waverly, Texas. Covey’s friend Cooper Dix has been brutally murdered, and two other people before him have been killed as well. What’s the connection? Who did it? Can this dynamic duo go two for two and solve yet another crime? Only one way to find out.

In Covey and JayJay Get Educated, Shelton takes the reader on a fast-paced journey deep into a sordid web of lies, corruption, and murder, with a hefty dose of white nationalism, racism, and homophobia thrown into the mix. While all this action takes place in the 1990s, these extreme, hate-filled attitudes have bulldozed their way into our present day, making them all too familiar and frustrating. Amidst these despicable behaviors and shady characters is a compelling story that waxes and wanes in terms of complexity and puzzling twists and turns, but hang in there. Shelton keeps the story on track and expertly combines both humor and seriousness in yet another fabulous story. The two main characters, Covey Jencks and JayJay Qualls, are a sweetly compatible couple. Never a dull moment with these two. While Covey is quite interesting and hilarious at times, JayJay often steals the scenes, especially at the end. This clever girl is full of sass and serious self-defense skills.

“Serves you right for bringing a piece of wood to a tai kwon do fight! Besides, you should never hit a girl.”

I like JayJay, and I think you will too. In fact, I’m fairly certain you will like all the characters in both books in this series. Shelton has a particular writing style that will definitely delight, occasionally find a soap box, and always keep you turning the pages because the plot is well concocted and absorbing, and the characterization is varied and exceptionally developed.

I know I said book 2 can stand alone, but if you haven’t read book 1 yet, go ahead and add it to your to-read list right now because Shelton has smoothly linked the two plots together, and you will definitely appreciate getting to know these characters from the beginning.

Aside from a few grammatical/formatting bumps in the road, Covey and JayJay Get Educated is full of tangled yet riveting action unfolding across each page, characters that surprise and entertain at every turn, a stimulating plot that will keep you on your toes, and an ending that sets up the next book, which hopefully won’t be too long of a wait.

Enter the giveaway below on or before December 20, 2019, for a chance to win your own copies of Covey Jencks and Covey and JayJay Get Educated by Shelton L. Williams.


Shelton L. Williams (Shelly) is founder and president of the Osgood Center for International Studies in Washington, DC. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and he taught for nearly 40 years at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He has served in the US Government on 4 occasions and he has written books and articles on nuclear proliferation. In 2004 he began a new career of writing books on crime and society. Those books are Washed in the Blood, Summer of 66, and now Covey Jencks. All firmly prove that he is still a Texan at heart.
 
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GIVEAWAY!  GIVEAWAY!  GIVEAWAY!
FOUR WINNERS!GRAND PRIZE: signed copy of each of the author’s books
SECOND PRIZE: signed copy of both Covey Jencks and Covey and JayJay Get Educated
THIRD PRIZE: Audio book of Covey and JayJay Get Educated
FOURTH PRIZE: Kindle version of Covey and JayJay Get Educated
DECEMBER 10-20, 2019
(U.S. Only)
 

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